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Peckinpah's The Getaway, Friday and Saturday, February...
...club run by Esso for employees of its Campana plant, 50 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. They headed straight for the table where Samuelson sat lunching with friends. Six other kidnapers, who had earlier infiltrated the club, quickly rose from their tables to help shove the American into a getaway car. Several days later a photograph was sent to Buenos Aires newspapers by the E.R.P. showing a nervous Samuelson posed in front of a poster of Che Guevara, the Argentine-born guerrilla killed in Bolivia...
Purely by accident, Charley and Nadine finally score big in Tres Cruces, N. Mex. There are a couple of snags. Nadine (Jacqueline Scott), shot in the side during the getaway, dies. And the haul is too big. Charley winds up with two pouches stuffed with hundreds, a little over $750,000 worth. His partner, Harman (Andy Robinson), is ecstatic, but Charley (Walter Matthau) is worried. He knows that the only reason there would be money like that in Tres Cruces is if the bank is being used for a drop...
...beloved leader. In fact, he was somewhat the more impetuous and strong-headed of the two. During World War II, for instance, Sadat was jailed as a political subversive after the failure of two absurdly bungled plots to smuggle a former Egyptian general over to the Germans. First a getaway car broke down, then an escape plane crashed on takeoff. Along with two Nazi spies who were his accomplices, Sadat was betrayed by a belly dancer and arrested. Israelis frequently cite Sadat's pro-German sympathies during World War II as proof of his implacable anti-Jewish feelings. Actually...
...Athens just prior to De Gaulle's May 1963 visit. The agent's mission: to shoot the general with a special camera that fired bullets. The gunman lost his fake identity papers during a lively evening at a local taverna and refused to take the risk without getaway documents. A new set arrived a day too late, and all he got was a photograph showing how close he had been to De Gaulle...